Coaching

It´s International Coaching Week. You probably haven´t noticed and that´s all right. We are still a very young profession (the International Coach Federation (ICF), the world´s largest coaching organisation with approx. 34,000 members today, was started in 1995). There are … Continued

How will I know that I have actually learned something? If you are proactive about your own professional development, you probably ask yourself that question each time you are considering a training programme. Of course you want to have a … Continued

Recently I have been talking a lot with coaching clients about the difficulties of giving instructions clearly. The topic also pops up regularly in my Legal Project Management workshops, since communicating clearly with your project team is absolutely vital for … Continued

This year I have been helping a lot of people draft their goals and supported them in achieving those goals. As coach to several dozen lawyers, I worked with them to make their goals SMART (specific, measurable, attractive, realistic and … Continued

Lawyers in law firms and law departments are starting to accept that The New Normal in the legal business environment requires them to change. The New Normal means, among many other things, coping with shrinking budgets for legal spend and … Continued

Feeling distracted and unfocused? This summer I´d like to invite you to (re-)train your focus by doing familiar things differently. Among the benefits are the ability to concentrate better and an increased awareness of the information all around you. And … Continued

Summer is here and you are probably looking forward to your annual vacation. We have great expectations and plans for this part of the year: read a stack of books, spend more time with our families and friends, days on … Continued

One of the things I learned in my coach training is ”Don´t believe everything you think”. I just love the counter-intuitive, stop-you-in-your-tracks quality of that sentence. And it´s true: A thought is not a fact, it´s just that – a … Continued

You may be standing at a crossroads in your career and feel that you are in need of a new sense of direction. Or you have realized that you have an area of development that you want to work with … Continued

One of my favourite quotes from Dan Pinks now famous and quite memorable TED-talk on motivation is ”I´m a lawyer – I don´t believe in feelings!”. What he expresses here is a common conviction that feelings have no place in legal … Continued

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